Improved clothes-bribr



tetta amel 'WILLIAM AOKER, OF TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK. tene/fs' Patent No. 84,928, daad December 15, 1868.

IIVIPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saine.

To all 'whom "it may concern l Be it known that I, WlLLLuI H. ACKER, of Tarrytown, in the county'of lNestchester, and lState of New York, have invented a new and'improved Glothes-Line Frame; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art4 to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingv drawings, forming part of this speciiication. g

This invention relates toa new and improved frame, for the purpose of fastening the clothes-lines thereto, so that they may be chawn to a proper state of tension, when clothes areadjusted upon them, the invention being designed to facilitate the securing of clotheson lines, and also the removal of them therefrom.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure l is a side View of my invention.- Figure 2, an end view of the same. v Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. f

A A represent two posts, which are sunk into the earth, at a suitable distance apart, and l B B are two levers, whichl are secured, by fulcrumpins a, in the upper ends of the posts, one lever being in each post.

The upper end of each lever B has a cross-bar, C, attached, to which one or more slotted plates D are secured, about at equal. distances apart.

These plates receive and hold the ends of the clothesthrough them, the upper parts of the slots being too narrow to admit' of the knots passing through.

By this means, the lines E aresecured to the bars O of the levers B, and this may be readily done when the levers are looseor disengaged, so that their upper ends may he drawn down. When the lines are thus attached to the loose or disengaged levers, the former are quite slack, and suspended low, so that the clothes may be readily secured 'upon them, and, when this is done, the' lower ends of the levers are drawn down, and secured by chains F, or any equivalent fastening, to the posts A'. As the lower ends of the levers are drawn down, the upper ends of course rise, and velevate and draw the lines E taut.

In order to remove the clothes from the lines, the lower ends of the levers are disengaged, andthe lines immediately sag or descend, so as to be within couvenient reach, and the clothes may readily be removed or detached from the lines.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The levers B, pivoted to the uprightv posts A, and provided, at their upper ends, with the cross-bars (l, carrying the slotted plates D, and, at their lower ends, with the chains F, all operating as described, whereby a series of parallel 1clothes-lines is adapted to be raised, lowered, and tightened between the'posts, at the same time preserving their parallelism, as herein shown and described.

Witnesses:

J ORDAN MOTT, J. ALEXANDER.

WILLIAM HA AOKER'. 

